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Updated: June 12, 2025
From his lips you looked for a voice of thunder and at drill you were not disappointed but on ordinary occasions his speech was soft and low; bass indeed as to its quality, but never harsh or loud. "A gale is brewing up from the nor'-west, so Jack Molloy says," remarked Hardy, as he was about to pass on. "Why, I thought it was blowing a gale now!" returned Miles.
We stood after that silent, Catriona looking on the deck and I on her; and before there was more speech, a little wind having sprung up in the nor'-west, they began to shake out the sails and heave in upon the anchor. There were six passengers besides our two selves, which made of it a full cabin.
"The 'Samaria broke her shaft, didn't she, last voyage, and was a missing ship for a month?" I asked. "Yes, sir," answered the clerk. "Then book me a passage in her," I replied; "she's not likely to play that prank twice in two voyages." The "Samaria " Across the Atlantic-Shipmates The Despot of the Deck "Keep her Nor'-West" Democrat versus Republican A First Glimpse Boston
Where did you say the British cruiser was last seen?" "Bearing nor'-east, sir, hull down on our starboard quarter. I called you at once, but she had changed her course to nor'-west and we lost sight of her." "That will just suit us," said Rosco, going into his private cabin and shutting the door.
The wind now began to blow steadily from the nor'-west; but not so hard as to stop our tryworks for more than an hour. After that it blew stiff enough to raise a heavy sea, and we were compelled to slack the fires. This was all the harm it did to us, however, for although the breeze was stiffish, it was nothing like a gale.
But I do not pretend, ma'amselle, to be expert in proprieties of this sort, though I can venture to say that I am somewhat of a judge of what the winds would be about when they open their shutters. This opening to the nor'-west, then, is a sure sign of something coming out of the window, well-bred or not."
Two days after our arrival, Cuthbert Grant, with a band of Bois-Brulés, had gone to Fort Douglas to arrest Captain Miles McDonell for plundering Nor'-West posts. The doughty governor took Grant's warrant as a joke and scornfully turned the whole North-West party out of Fort Douglas.
"On the contrary, man," returned Lumley, taking up the tin kettle as he spoke, "true sentiment, if you had it, would induce you to moralise on that bird as you plucked it on the romantic commencement of its career amid the reeds and sedges of the swamps in the great Nor'-west; on the bold flights of its maturer years over the northern wilderness into those mysterious regions round the pole, which man, with all his vaunted power and wisdom, has failed to fathom, and on the sad I may even say inglorious termination of its course in a hunter's pot, to say nothing of a hunter's stom "
But, as I was remarking, those clouds, you can see, are getting together, and are making ready for a start, since here they will not be able to stay much longer." "And what will compel them to disappear?" "Do me the favour to turn your eyes here, to the nor'-west You see an opening there that looks like a crouching lion; is it not so?"
There is a difference between sailing smoothly along the shores of Lake Winnipeg with favouring breezes, and being tossed on its surging billows by the howling of a nor'-west wind, that threatens destruction to the boat, or forces it to seek shelter on the shore.
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